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which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States;
For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World;
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent;
For depriving us <, IN MANY CASES,> of the Benefits of Trial by Jury; For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences;
For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government <,> and enlarging its Boundaries <,> so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies;
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and <,ALTERING> fundamentally the Forms of our Governments;
For suspending our own Legislatures <,> and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever:
He has abdicated Government here, withdrawing his governors, and <BY> declaring us out of his allegiance and Protection <AND WAGING WAR AGAINST US>.
He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns <,> and destroyed the Lives of our People.
He is <,> at this Time <,> transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation and Tyranny <,> already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy <SCARCELY PARALLELED IN THE MOST BARBAROUS AGES, AND> totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property:
He has constrained <OUR FELLOW CITIZENS> others, taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He <HAS EXCITED DOMESTIC INSURRECTIONS AMONGST US, AND> has endeavored to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers <,> the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare <,> is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions of existence.
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of distant people, who never offended him, captivating
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